Police officers hang their handcuffs in large quantities. The wave of finer firings began after George Floyd’s police murder on May 25, with 272 uniformed police officers filing retirement documents from then until June 24, New York police say. That’s a 49 percent increase from the 183 officers who filed …
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Nearly half of the 124,000 people who died of coronavirus in the US worked or lived in a nursing home, according to a new death count at 12,000 facilities showing that people who get infected in nursing homes die three times as many of the general population rate. While 11 …
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Another bloody Saturday in New York City left two people dead and 17 more injured in at least a dozen shootings within 14 hours, police said. Between 11 p.m. Friday and 1 p.m. Saturday, police recorded 12 shootings in four districts, part of a troubling shooting spike in recent weeks …
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Governor Andrew Cuomo on Saturday asked state investigators to investigate a COVID-19 group in Westchester, believed to have been caused by a student who returned from Florida’s coronavirus hot spot, and then attended a graduation ceremony in Chappaqua. Elegant. The unidentified student began showing symptoms after the “driving” ceremony on …
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The chief of the New York police constituency who withdrew in protest this week criticized politicians for wanting to “vilify” police officers during a scandalous final strike celebration at his Bronx station home on Friday. Deputy Inspector Richard Brea got into a restored classic police car around 3 p.m. after …
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